The experience of Canada, which agreed to an ISDS clause in its North American Free Trade agreement, should give pause to Australia.

‘The people of the United Kingdom’ felt the tobacco industry’s record of addicting children and then killing one in two of those who don’t escape their clutches did matter.
Chad Kainz/Flickr30 août 2015

Imagine you were about to buy a property and were advised that in two years time, a major freeway would be built two hundred metres away, greatly diminishing the value of your purchase. Then imagine you…